Am.  Jour.  PL  arm. 
Nov.,  1892. 
Reviews. 
599 
Ph.M.,  Professors  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  Parts  I  and  II. 
Elementary  Physics  and  Chemistry  of  the  Non-Metals.  Philadelphia  :  P. 
Elakiston,  Son  &  Co.,  1892.    8vo.    Pp.  209. 
This  is  a  preliminary  issue,  not  intended  for  general  circulation,  but  rather 
for  the  uses  of  the  present  classes  of  the  College,  in  which  both  authors  have 
been  active  as  teachers  for  a  series  of  years.  Part  I  treats  of  elementary 
physics  in  chapters  devoted  to  matter,  force  and  motion,  special  properties  of 
matter  (such  as  attraction,  repulsion,  pressure),  heat,  light,  magnetism  and 
electricity.  In  Part  II  the  non-metallic  elements  are  considered  in  six  chapters, 
comprising  hydrogen,  the  halogens  (chlorine,  bromine,  iodine  and  fluorine), 
the  oxygen  group  (oxygen,  sulphur,  selenium  and  tellurium),  the  nitrogen 
group  (nitrogen  and  phosphorus),  boron,  and  the  carbon  group  (silicon  and  car- 
bon). The  definitions,  descriptions  of  apparatus  and  experiments  or  pro- 
cesses, explanations  of  properties  and  applications,  etc.,  are  simple  and  clear, 
whether  merely  outlined  or  given  more  in  detail.  While  nothing  is  omitted 
that  may  serve  to  illustrate  the  important  principles  and  theories  of  chemical 
science,  due  prominence,  without  unnecessary  prolixity,  is  given  to  such  facts 
which  have  a  bearing  upon  application  in  medicine  and  pharmacy.  More  than 
fifty  well-executed  cuts  serve  to  still  further  elucidate  apparatus,  experiments 
and  technical  processes. 
The  work  now  before  us  is  to  form  part  of  a  full  text-book  and  reference 
book  on  chemistry  for  students  in  pharmacy  and  medicine,  and  the  authors 
will  at  an  early  date  complete  the  entire  work,  which  beside  the  above,  will 
include  the  chemistry  of  the  metals  and  metallic  salt,  the  chemistry  of  the  car- 
bon compounds  (organic  chemistry),  and  the  outlines  of  analytical  chemistry, 
including  the  subject  of  drug-assaying.  If  continued,  as  will  doubtless  be  the 
case,  in  the  same  excellent  manner  as  the  parts  now  before  us,  the  work  will 
form  a  very  comprehensive,  practical  and  valuable  book  for  students,  as  well 
as  for  reference  by  others  interested  in  medical  and  pharmaceutical  chemistry. 
1,500  Prescriptions  of  all  kinds,  right  and  wrong,  selected  from  prescription 
files,  journals,  formularies,  pharmacopoeias  and  medical  works,  illustrating 
correct  and  incorrect  construction,  latinity,  abbreviations,  doses  and  pharmacy, 
and  covering  all  the  principal  forms  in  which  medicines  are  commonly  adminis- 
tered. Intended  as  an  aid  to  pharmaceutical  teachers,  students  and  examiners. 
By  Oscar  Oldberg,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Pharmacy,  Northwestern  University. 
Published  by  the  Apothecaries'  Company,^ Chicago.  1892.  Pp.  244.  Price, 
$1.50;  interleaved  $2. 00. 
The  title  page  explains  the  aim  and  scope  of  the  work,  which  is  divided  into, 
eleven  parts,  of  which  one  contains  prescriptions  in  unabridged  Latin,  intended 
to  be  translated  into  Bnglish,  and  to  be  rewritten  in  the  customary  abbrevi- 
ated form.  The  second  part  illustrates  problems  of  prescription  writing  ;  and 
the  third  and  fourth  parts  contain  prescriptions  in  which  the  quantities  are 
to  be  calculated  into  metric  terms  or  into  the  old-fashioned  apothecaries' 
weights  and  measures.  The  remaining  parts  give  prescriptions,  of  which  a 
large  number  are  subject  to  criticism  for  various  reasons,  while  others  present 
difficulties  to  be  overcome.  The  prescriptions  are  of  so  varied  a  nature  that 
nearly  all  phases,  good  and  bad,  are  encountered,  and  furnish  excellent  mate- 
rial for  comprehensive  study  and  manipulation,  leaving  nothing  to  be  desired 
for  exercises  in  the  direction  indicated  ;  the  chirography  of  some  prescribers 
